Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Same here. ;D Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> To: lug at leica-users.org Sent: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:53:34 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [Leica] Grasshopper weathervane George Lottermoser wrote: >>> >Larry Zeitlin via LUG wrote: > > "For the last 50 years I have had a grasshopper weathervane fastened to > the chimney of my house. It is a beautifully crafted sculpture of hammered > copper made by the descendants of the very craftsmen who made the similar > weathervane that adorns Faneuil Hall in Boston. If polished and exhibited > as art it would be accepted by almost any art show but as a weathervane it > has a function. It is not considered art but craft." > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Weathervane+and+detail.jpg.html <<< > >We often find ourselves caught up in duality thinking. >A thing is either this or that. >Black or white. >Good or bad. >Art or craft. > >While most experiences fall somewhere >on a continuum between the extremes. > >Both and rather than either or. > >An object can exist as both an art and a craft; >when it possess qualities attributed to both labels. > >In the end >it matters little what we call the shit we make. > >Does it have value? >to the creator? >to anyone else? > >Will it be tossed in the garbage by our kids or grandkids? >Will it be conserved by a conservator? >Exhibited in a museum? >Collected by a collector? > >Labelers hang labels on things. >Sellers hang price tags on things. >Buyers determine the value of things. People are welcome to call my photographs anything they want as long as I get paid. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com http://doug-herr.fineartamerica.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information